SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has hosted a meeting with some thirty social entities attached to the Tenerife Isla Solidaria program that attend to people in a situation of social emergency on the Island to explain the line of subsidies destined this year to distribute essential products, resolve doubts on the bases of the call and collect proposals for future actions.
The period to attend this new line of aid began on Thursday, March 9 and will remain open until the 29th of this month. In total there are 1.7 million euros for the distribution of essential products, an item that includes for the first time specific lines for the distribution of menstrual hygiene products, with a total of 200,000 euros.
The president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, pointed out that the 22 beneficiary entities of the current call (2021-May 2023), endowed with 3 million euros, have distributed basic necessities among more than 50,000 people on the Island. of the data registered until last December, which give an idea of the intense activity and the important social and solidarity function carried out by the delivery entities on the island”, he highlighted.
Pedro Martín indicated that they enabled this type of economic subsidies in 2021, “when the public needed it the most”, and announced that the intention is to give them continuity and that they increase over time to help the entities maintain their activity and that people and families in vulnerable situations can have access to basic and essential products that improve their daily lives.
The aid is aimed at entities that distribute food and basic necessities attached to the Tenerife Isla Solidaria program, dependent on the Insular Society for the Promotion of Persons with Disabilities (Sinpromi), designated by the Spanish Agrarian Guarantee Fund (FEGA). ), Associated Organization of Distribution (OAD), Red Cross and Food Bank of Tenerife.
The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, highlighted, for his part, that this mandate has marked the commitment to change the model of attention to associations and entities on the Island and promote citizen and social participation and respect to diversities”.
“Under the presidency of Pedro Martín, an unprecedented milestone has been produced, allocating aid to the social services of the city councils and to entities to guarantee social emergency care”, stressed the CEO, who valued the municipal involvement, of social groups and entities to encourage networking and promote this insular ring of solidarity.
Gugliotta explained that for the economic distribution between the entities, their size, the territorial area they cover, areas of action and number of municipalities they cover, as well as the number of people and families who attend, among other criteria, will be taken into account.
